Lawmakers on Monday criticised the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) for failing to grant admission to all eligible students in state-run schools and colleges. The observations were made during a meeting of a sub-committee of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat.

Minister of State for Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry has said Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has allocated Rs2.7 billion for up gradation of schools and procurement of buses for educational institutions.

Area Education Officers have recommended establishing 60 schools in the federal capital. The reason behind this is that a shortage of schools is expected for an exceeding number of students, especially after the annual census is completed.

Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq - Tamgha-i-Imtiaz, is one of the 500 most influential Muslims of the world for three consecutive years 2015, 2016 and 2017, a YPO member of world's leading Young Presidents Organisation, member of the Governing Board of Cadet College Hasanabdal, member of Board of Governor World Wide Fund for Nature WWF, Book Ambassador for the years of 2016-17 by the National Book Foundation, national student 'counselor', 'academician', 'school practitioner' and a 'social entrepreneur'.

Schools and colleges working under Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) are closing on June 2, 2017 for summer vacation, says the annul calendar of the FDE activities. However, the government is also mulling to announce the summer vacation a week before the scheduled time i.e. May 26, 2017 as the holy month of Ramazanul Mubarak is commencing from May 28, said a senior official of the FDE while talking to Pakistan Observer on Monday.

Speakers at a workshop stressed the need for psychological treatment of special children so that they could become a useful citizen of the country. The two-day workshop was organised for psychologists working at Institutions of Special Education Department Rawalpindi Division at Government Girls High School for Blind Girls Rawalpindi on Monday.

Provincial Minister for Education and Literacy Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar has said that those who were involved in fake appointments of the teachers especially SLT, OT and non-teaching staff, are under scrutiny these days and will be taken to task soon since more than 30 thousands staff in different cadres were appointed in 2012.

Women were among a number of primary school teachers who staged a protest sit-in under the banner of the All Sindh Primary Teachers’ Association (SPTA) on Monday at the Hyderabad bypass for some hours while pressing the Sindh government to remove the Complete Story: